He said pointedly this week that he wanted the oligarchs cut down to size.
In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.
It was an appropriate epitaph for Leicester's Treble hopes, cut down to size by those swarming Wasps.
David Cameron said net immigration needed to be cut down to "tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands".
But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
In real terms, spending would continue to grow, but at least the leviathan would start to be cut down to size.
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Allowing this increase would bring their promised cut down to only 1.6p.
At any other resort, that grove at the back of the 13th green would have been cut down to open up the ocean view.
Ahly have been league leaders for several weeks but have had their lead cut down to two points, with three matches left in the season.
If you are deeply opposed to the concept of being cut down to your regular size, you can wear a small block or kitten heel.
In Los Angeles, the space shuttle Endeavor's final journey is causing controversy, as more than 400 trees are being cut down to make way for the spacecraft.
The real hurt was dished out to Windows 7 tablets and "others" like RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, both of whom were cut down to just 1.2 points of share each in the spring.
David Cameron has created more than a hundred peers since the general election and unless the House of Lords really is cut down to size under the coalition government there will be more politicians, not fewer.
The AP's figures include salaries and prorated shares of signing bonuses and other guaranteed income for players on active rosters, disabled lists and the restricted lists, and rosters will change before teams must cut down to 25 active players.
Gore's father could find poetry in the hardship stories of his early days in Possum Hollow, recalling droughts so bad that they had to cut down trees to let cattle suck moisture from the leaves, but most of the romance was in the telling, not the living.
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Brazil is using monetary policy as a means to cut inflation down to size.
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There are so many reasons to consider, but I will cut it down to just a few points.
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However, strong performance from competitors like Oracle and VMware could force IBM to cut down on margins to as low as 2005 levels.
That's debatable (you have to cut down more forest to grow them), but they indisputably are benefiting from the same leftist zeitgeist that propels the solar energy business.
With Amazon having substantial experience in operating low-very low margin businesses, we expect the company to further cut down its prices to maintain a price advantage and rely on volumes to drive growth.
He pointed to the second and third quarters of 2005, when the industry was able to grit out a softening market for steel because prior consolidation meant firms were able to cut down on production and allow inventories to run down.
The pool of over 300 eligible jurors was cut down due to hardship reasons.
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Against this background, Mr Putin's promise, when he became president in 2000, to cut the oligarchs down to size was justified and welcome.
Some operators including Bharti recently increased their telephone-call charges for the first time in several years and cut down discounts to offset rising costs.
Some monarchs must have wondered if they were giving away too much power with their charters, and attempted to cut the companies down to size.
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But guess what: Mr Berlusconi has scuppered an 18-month-long attempt at constitutional reform, largely because he was thwarted in his desire to cut the magistracy down to size.
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